ATS2358 Contesting laws: Heritage, culture and land
Faculty of Arts
ATS2358 Contesting laws: Heritage, culture and land is a level 2, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts. It isn't offered in 2020. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Not offered
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2021 entry.
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Requisites
Before ATS2358
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After ATS2358
No unit lists ATS2358 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prerequisite: Twelve credit points of first-year Arts units.
Prohibition: ATS3358
Overview
When Europeans arrived in Australia they brought with them a complex system of laws which were markedly different to those used and practiced by Indigenous Australians for thousands of years. The subsequent imposition of European law over Indigenous law created significant tensions especially in relation to Indigenous connections to land, sea and culture. This unit undertakes an interdisciplinary study related to Indigenous Law, land rights, Native Title, Indigenous knowledge and cultural heritage. The unit critically examines some of the emerging and recent debates involving: Native Title and mining; intangible heritage (art-song-story); and general public responses to Indigenous land rights.
Offerings in 2020
The 2020 handbook lists no offerings for ATS2358.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Describe and critically compare both orally and in writing the major shifts in approaches to native title and land rights.
- 2
Evaluate the prevailing attitudes which dominate current thinking about native title from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including law, history, anthropology and archaeology.
- 3
Understand the importance of native title and land rights to social justice and reconciliation.
- 4
Critically analyse legal, political and historical representations of native title and understand their relationship to debates concerning the cultural politics of representation and self-determination.
- 5
Demonstrate both orally and in writing an understanding of native title debates in terms of historical and contemporary relations between Indigenous peoples and the law.
Workload and teaching
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Where it fits
ATS2358 is part of 3 areas of study in the 2020 handbook.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Jeremy Ash
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Jeremy Ash
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ATS2358?
ATS2358 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is ATS2358 offered?
ATS2358 has no offerings listed in the 2020 handbook.
How much work is ATS2358?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Which majors and minors include ATS2358?
ATS2358 is part of Anthropology; and Indigenous cultures and histories.
More details
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 2
- Study level
- Undergraduate
- Faculty
- Faculty of Arts
- Organisational unit
- Monash Indigenous Studies Centre
- Type
- Coursework
- EFTSL
- 0.125
- Student contribution
- SCA Band 1
- Study abroad
- Not available
- Handbook years
- 20202021